Via Boing Boing, this, from Google Japan:
Most scary: the seeming universal nature of hipster affect.
Talk amongst Ur-selves.
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Via Boing Boing, this, from Google Japan:
Most scary: the seeming universal nature of hipster affect.
Talk amongst Ur-selves.
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fuckwit
Google chindogu!
Perfect for 4/1.
Mike E
Now, this would look like a good idea to some parents, no doubt!
jacel
Here’s the best I’ve seen today so far.
http://www.groupon.com/grouber
aimai
I love the one that fit over the nose.
SFAW
I’ve tried ordering five of them — they’re on backorder, out to July. Drat!
orogeny
Heavy online porn consumers will go for this in a big way.
JPL
@Mike E: Oh my! ages three and up. I raised two sons or they raised me, not sure which, but having those in the house, would not be a good idea.
Amir Khalid
@aimai:
Especially the Pinocchio theme.
Cheap Jim, formerly Cheap Jim
I’ve been on the fence over taking up pottery. No longer.
bemused
Ely, a town on the edge of the BWCA, has come out with their annual April Fool’s day creation at ely.org.
BGinCHI
Pynchon is writing his next novel with one of those.
Roger Moore
But does it work with Iroha or Gojuon ordering?
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Mike E: WANT!
Suggestion for celebrating Holy Week
Keith G
Cannot be used in Indiana for communication between males.
Pee Cee
In fairness, using Google’s device is probably easier than getting Anthy set up properly under Ubuntu…
Doug r
Would add another layer to the beans scene in Blazing Saddles
Lavocat
I presume that this is the Japanese version of an April Fool’s Day prank because this seems like complete bullshit.
Then again, I’ve seen crazier things out of Japan that turned out to be all-too-serious.
So … I can NEVER tell when the Japanese are joking (because, when they should be – they often are not).
Pearl Harbor anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
PaulW
blog flog: serious thoughts on April Fools
shell
Is there a Google April Fool’s doodle today?
WaterGirl
@shell: Didn’t google do an april fools joke one year where they changed G O O G L E
to
K A N S A S with a serious explanation of why they did so?
They actually caught me with that one.
raven
I sent it to all my potter friends (of which Athens has WAY to many)!
MattF
The no-hands version made me think of Le Petomane:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Pétomane
beltane
Bob Menendez indicted: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/65615613edeb4ccbbd053daa380912df/new-jersey-sen-bob-menendez-indicted-corruption-charges
This is not an April Fools joke.
Jim Kakalios
The Air and Space museum has an excellent display – but today only!
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2015/04/smithsonian-displays-wonder-womans-invisible-jet-for-april-fools-day/
Face Front, True Believer!
Roger Moore
@shell:
No, but you can play PacMan on Google Maps.
Yatsuno
@beltane: Sigh. Will there be no end to that Islamocommunofascist’s oppression?
Elizabelle
Big news day: Governor Jerry Brown institutes statewide water reduction; obviously he needs to target it more to agricultural, but it’s a start.
McDonald’s announces it’s raising wages and offering health benefits to its underpaid minions.
Robert Menendez indicted on federal corruption charges.
Anybody hear whether Shanna Tippen got her job back in Pine Bluff, Arkansas (or if the parent chain found her a comparable one)?
Elizabelle
Here’s the NYTimes story on California water restrictions.
Agriculture, though, is going to be the big one. Some products (looking at you, almonds and cows) are not sustainable and need to go elsewhere.
I’m glad Gov. Brown is doing this; it’s a start. Can you imagine how scared the wine industry is? And citrus and other traditional crops?
Bill Arnold
@Lavocat:
Bagel Heads? Horse Flesh Ice Cream?
My weird/not weird classifier is broken for things Japanese.
Mary G
@Elizabelle: I hope that will be enough. My water bill is more than my electricity bill already and they are raising prices again in June. I am learning to save though, pretty amazing how much water you can use out of habit.
Fair Economist
Almond trees don’t have to be such water hogs; they grow naturally in rather dry climates. It’s not almonds per se but the strains and horticulture techniques that are the problem.
Roger Moore
@Elizabelle:
Now the state legislature needs to step up and do its part. A law invalidating any local restriction (government or HOA) requiring people to have lawns would be a good start.
Elizabelle
I’m amazed to find out that Colorado residents are not allowed to have rainbarrels or anything to catch rainfall because that water is spoken for downstream. I do remember a Denver friend telling me that, and thinking it was loopy.
Very glad to have Jerry Brown as governor. A sane state chief executive goes a long way.
@Mary G: I know. I wish, and hope, there’s a way that us Easterners helping to conserve water can help our Western (and midwest) friends too. We’re all kind of spoiled, and that day is coming to an end.
The Guardian ran an article recently about massive water shortages in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and how it brought out competitiveness — not collaboration — among some residents.
Violet
@Elizabelle:
Chico Harlan who wrote the article says she’s talking to the NLRB:
Elizabelle
@Elizabelle: I misspoke on health benefits re McDonalds — ixnay that. It’s accruing paid time off, for both full- and part- timers. McD’s will also offer high school completion assistance, free of charge, to employees, and some college assistance (no details offered). Also ESL training.
These benefits, and the wage increase — $1.00 above minimum wage, beginning July 1, applies only to company-owned stores, and about 90,000 workers. However, 90% of McD’s employees work for franchises, so the corporate parent hopes there will be some wage increase pressure there.
No word at all on health benefits; maybe they’re silently hoping employees are on Obamacare or have another avenue to being covered.
ETA: Here’s the McPress release: http://news.mcdonalds.com/Corporate/news-stories/McDonald’s-USA-Announces-New-Employee-Benefit-Pack
Violet
@Elizabelle: I think they’ve changed or are trying to change the law in some places in Colorado so that residential customers can have small rain barrels. I think they’re more concerned about giant cisterns that ranchers might install.
SiubhanDuinne
@shell:
Yes. Go to com.google.
(Edit: Not a doodle as such, but a good contribution to the genre.)
Elizabelle
@Violet: Thanks Violet. Good news, and even better news will be a job in the meantime.
I hope she takes Days Inn and Wyndham to the cleaners. I do worry they’ll say she didn’t tell them about her prior arrest and jail record; if she did, I hope her application does not “disappear.”
germy shoemangler
this just in:
Memories Pizza — the first Indiana business to declare it would refuse LGBT business — got blasted on the Internet and by phone, but the owner says there’s been a huge misunderstanding … sorta.
Kevin O’Connor tells TMZ he’s had to temporarily close his business after he told a reporter he would refuse to cater a gay wedding under Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act. O’Connor says he was immediately flooded by threatening phone calls, and social media postings.
O’Connor wants to clear up one thing: He says he would never deny service to gay people in his restaurant. However, due to his religious beliefs, he does not believe in gay marriage … and that’s why he wouldn’t service one.
Meanwhile, he says the threats have been serious enough that he’s closing his pizza joint … at least until the dust settles.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@germy shoemangler: Oh, so he was going bankrupt anyway and now has an excuse that doesn’t reflect poorly on him.
I see the governor of Arkansas has spiked his state’s gay-bashing bill for now. And although that’s a good thing, the fact that WalMart basically ordered him to do it – and he did – is beyond disturbing in my book.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Roger Moore: This. Pass a law banning grass lawns. Then mandate that everyone plant milkweed for the monarchs instead. I also want a pony that shits rainbows. But seriously if HOAs want useless green lawns in front of houses they should let homeowners put down the fake stuff, you can hardly tell the difference these days. The stuff they use on yard crashers looks like the real deal but doesn’t require watering or mowing. Can you tell I hate lawns?
CONGRATULATIONS!
@Elizabelle: He’s not touching agriculture. I am beyond disappointed.
And when I get my next water bill, I’m probably going to be seriously pissed off. We did all the shit you’re supposed to do: low-flow toilets, low-water washing machine, drip irrigation, the whole deal. I really don’t have 25% I can cut at this point. I should have just kept spraying water everywhere until the cuts.
opiejeanne
@Roger Moore: I can’t . neither the PC nor the Mac will let me play. The icon is not where everyone says it is, no matter what platform I use, so I have come to the conclusion that all the world is laughing at me and this is a prank on me. Bah.
opiejeanne
@Elizabelle: The almonds are a huge problem, as are any other tree crop in California grown on land with an older water agreement in force. You fly over that part of the state on the right day of the week and it’s like a mirror because those old orchards are flooded, rather than on a drip line.
bemused
@germy shoemangler:
I thought they should have known better than to tell their opinions, esp on tv. The problem is they live in a bubble and truly believe the majority of Americans think the same way they do.
WaterGirl
@CONGRATULATIONS!:
Are you distinguishing between farmers and agriculture?
opiejeanne
@CONGRATULATIONS!: We keep getting the notice to cut our water usage at our cabin in Blue Jay, CA, and we are there only a few weeks total every year. The usual water usage is so low that I’m just paying the service fee of $15/mo.
opiejeanne
@WaterGirl: A lot of golf courses have switched to gray water systems, but more always could do it if it weren’t so expensive for the initial setup. Unless there are now subsidies to pay for the piping needed?
WaterGirl
@opiejeanne: Since someone upthread was upset that this regulation doesn’t cover agriculture, I was really just trying to ask whether there is a distinction between “farmers” and “agriculture”.
Because farmers were clearly listed in the groups that are covered.
Paul in KY
Seems like it would be harder to master than a keyboard.
Slim Shady
Microsoft just announced their version of the product. You’ll be able to beta test it sometime in the Fall of 2021, but they announced it, that’s the main thing.
hidflect
Actually had me fooled until I saw the nose version. Then I got it…